Wall Covering

ABSTRACT

A wall covering in the form of a bordure or a tile sticker that can be stuck onto a wall or tile surface. The wall covering is comprised of at least one supporting body with a visible front side and a back side. At least a portion of the visible front side comprises a printed lenticular foil and/or a lenticular foil with images stuck behind it.

CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

This application claims the priority of DE 202018004445.8 filed on 2018Sep. 26 and the priority of DE 202019001359.8 filed on 2019 Mar. 25; allapplications are incorporated by reference herein in their entirety.

BACKGROUND

The invention relates to a wall covering in the form of a bordure or atile sticker that can be stuck to a wall or tile surface, comprising atleast one supporting body with a visible front side and a back side.

In order to homely equip wall surfaces within a room, these may beprovided, for example, with rough-cast, a finishing coat, or else withwallpaper. If wallpaper is used, a painting which is adjusted to thefurniture as to its colour may additionally be applied and renewed atmajor time intervals. Especially in children's rooms, it is desired tohave a cosy decoration of the walls suited for children which must beadapted to the hobbies or changing interests as the child is growing up.These may be, for example, sports clubs and their known players, or elsemovie heroes. Such wall coverings may be provided all-over at least onewall. As an alternative, a bordure may be used which is additionallystuck to a wallpaper at an appropriate height. The bordure oftenconsists of a paper web with a visible front side and a back side whichis stuck onto the wall surface, for example, by means of an adhesive.Well-known bordures include a print which is, for example, adapted tothe wallpaper used so that a uniform theme is given. As an alternative,a painted wall may also be provided with a bordure which is designedrather unostentatiously, but corresponding to the child's desires.

Moreover, it is popular to embellish bathrooms which are equipped, forexample, with uniform white tiles, with stickers. To this end, forexample self-adhesive plastic materials or transfer pictures are usedwhich may be later removed from the tiles anyway and adapted to anytaste due to their design options.

SUMMARY

The invention relates to a wall covering in the form of a bordure or atile sticker that can be stuck onto a wall or tile surface. The wallcovering is comprised of at least one supporting body with a visiblefront side and a back side. At least a portion of the visible front sidecomprises a printed lenticular foil and/or a lenticular foil with imagesstuck behind it.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

To increase the attractiveness of such a bordure or tile sticker, theobject underlying the present invention is to provide a bordure or atile sticker that meets a particular optical demand and may beinexpensively produced.

According to the invention, to solve the problem, at least a portion ofthe visible front side of the bordure or a tile sticker has a printedlenticular foil and/or a lenticular foil with pictures stuck behind it.Further advantageous developments can be taken from the subclaims.

By the use of a lenticular foil which is used at least in partial areasof the bordure or the tile sticker, it is possible to create differentpictures from various angles of view, which attracts the viewers'increased attention and just in children's rooms, bathrooms or kitchenscauses a clear optical valorisation.

The optical effects achievable with the lenticular foil consist, forexample, of 3D effects, a depth image of pictures, the representation offlip images or changing images through to the depiction of smoothanimations. Here, combinations of the mentioned effects are, of course,also possible. For the generation of a 3D effect, for example, picturesare made in individual depth levels, just as with a scenery theatre, andfrom this, a three-dimensional image is created which is arranged behindthe lenticular foil. For changing images or for animations, in contrast,two or more starting images are separated into narrow strips which arealternatingly attached one next to the other on the back side of thelenticular foil. Here, usually the images produced with special softwareare disposed on the back side of the lenticular foil. Here, the backside of the lenticular foil corresponds to the side which is facing awayfrom the optically structured foil side, i. e. the foil side providedwith lenses. The complexity of the optical effects is increased with thenumber of images taken as a basis for the image information and withwhich the lenticular foil is printed or which are stuck at the backside. For example, for two-phase flip images, the combination of twoimages is already sufficient. By processing several images, multi-phasesor complete motion sequences, but also zooming or morphing effects maybe represented. The representations are here set up from a plurality ofsingle images, just as with a flip book, which essentially merge intoeach other smoothly. Here, preferably a fourfold animation with fourimages is used. By designing a lenticular foil with printed imagesand/or images stuck at the back on the bordures or tile stickers, theseare particularly optically valorised which attracts the attention of theviewers in any case.

Both with the bordures and with the tile stickers, it becomes possible,by the use of a lenticular foil, to perform a customized design of thepremises which offers, for example in children's rooms, an infinitenumber of design options. The same applies to bathrooms provided forchildren or adults and comprising either child's themes or otherdesigns, for example logos of soccer clubs or other sports clubs one isstrongly linked to and wants to demonstrate it by corresponding tilestickers.

Here, it is easily possible that in a special embodiment, the completefront side consists of a lenticular foil and thus changing imagesextending over a theme are arranged across the complete bordure.However, it is moreover also possible that several lenticular foils withdifferent graphics elements, which may concentrate, for example, on onesubject, are disposed distributed over the length of the bordure.

It is furthermore possible that several lenticular foils with differentgraphics elements are arranged spaced apart on the bordure, where thesemay directly merge into each other or be spaced apart.

If these are tile stickers, they are preferably adapted corresponding tothe size of the respective tile, wherein both small tile formats as wellas larger tile formats may be taken into consideration. The larger thetile is, the greater is the scope for design by means of the lenticularfoils and the graphical representation possibilities.

The lenticular foil may here be connected to the supporting material bya material bond and/or with a form-fit, in particular by gluing, sewingand welding the lenticular foil and the supporting body.

As an alternative, it is possible that the lenticular foil and thesupporting body are bordered by an edge strip, wherein the edge stripoptionally has a small width so that it is in the background and ishardly perceived.

In a further preferred embodiment, the lenticular foil with images stuckto its back side is laminated with a paper fibre and/or a fabric-likesupporting layer at its back which serves as a supporting body and maybe directly stuck onto the wall or tile surface. As an alternative, itis possible, for fixing the lenticular foil, that the edges of thelenticular foil with the images on the back side are bordered andenclose the supporting body. It is furthermore possible that thelenticular foil is stuck, ironed, sewn or welded onto the front side,whereby also a long durability may be ensured.

In a further preferred embodiment of the invention, the supporting bodyis provided on its back side with a pressure-sensitive adhesive, thepressure-sensitive adhesive being equipped with a peelable laminationsheet which, after it has been peeled off, permits a direct fixing ofthe bordure or the tile sticker onto the wall or tile surface.

In a particular embodiment of the inventive idea, the supporting bodywith the pressure-sensitive adhesive may be peeled off a wall or tilesurface without leaving any residue and may be reused. Thereby, in arenovation or transformation of the wall surfaces, the same bordure ortile sticker may be employed again and optionally stuck onto the wall ortile surface in a different position.

The particularity of the present invention is that a bordure or tilesticker known per se obtains a clear optical valorisation by at least apartial area of the bordure or the tile sticker being covered with alenticular foil, preferably the complete area of the bordure or the tilesticker. The lenticular foil employed here may be equipped withchild-oriented themes and creates animated pictures having athree-dimensional character, whereby the attractiveness of such borduresor tile stickers is increased. The lenticular foil with images at itsback may have both a two-dimensional and a three-dimensional design andrepresent, for example, sportive themes or well-known athletes or,depending on the children's interest, also contain well-known moviethemes and individual actors as well as graphical representations ofanimals, cartoons, fictional characters or cartoon characters involvingan increased attention and which may also be replaced by othercharacters or images, when the interests are changing.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The invention will be further illustrated again below with reference tothe figures. In the drawings:

FIG. 1 shows, in a perspective view, a spatial representation of twowalls, and

FIG. 2 shows, in a perspective view, a spatial representation of abathroom.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

FIG. 1 shows, in a perspective view, the spatial representation of aroom, in this case, two walls 1 and 2 which form, for example, thecorner of a room being represented. The walls 1, 2 are optionallyprovided with wallpaper 3, but they may also be painted. On the walls 1,2, there is a circumferential bordure 4 which is attached, for example,at a corresponding height for a children's room. The bordure 4 normallyconsists of a supporting body on which a lenticular foil is attached,for example stuck, which is provided with a graphical design 5 which isonly indicated in outlines without selecting any particular theme inFIG. 1. The bordure 4 is provided with a bonding sheet on its back andmay thus be directly stuck onto the walls 1, 2. As an alternative, it ispossible to use a conventional adhesive material which is used, forexample, for wallpapers. The design created by the lenticular foil mayhere extend across the complete length of the bordure 4, but it is alsopossible that a lenticular foil is only partially present on the bordure4 which may be interrupted by colouring. It is thus possible to placeindividual sequences of the same or different types on one bordure 4. Bythe bordure 4 designed in this manner, the room, preferably a children'sroom, obtains a particular optical valorisation, and it may contain,according to the children's or adolescent's desires, sportive scenes orwell-known athletes, movie themes or individual actors as well asrepresentations of animals, cartoons, fictional characters or cartooncharacters, which are characterized, due to the employed lenticularfoil, by a changing motion sequence.

FIG. 2 also shows, in a spatial arrangement, two walls 10, 11, which arein this case bathroom walls on which tiles 12 are stuck. In the shownembodiment, the tiles 12 only reach up to a certain height so that theupper area of the walls 10, 11 may be painted. The tiles 12 are herepartially provided with a tile sticker 14 which is equipped with alenticular foil. These tile stickers 14, too, are provided with a theme15 which is only symbolically indicated without showing a certain theme.The arrangement of the tile stickers 14 may here be effected in regionswhere there are sufficiently large open spaces and where no sanitaryobjects are fixed to the wall or on the bottom. The design of thebathroom is therefore individually possible, wherein in individualcases, by a plurality of tiles stickers 14, a kind of bordure is formedin a row, or by an alternative arrangement of the individual tilestickers, any pattern may be created. Each tile sticker is equipped witha lenticular foil so that, for example, club emblems or selectedplayers, optionally also fictional characters, cartoon characters orcartoons, may be used.

LIST OF REFERENCE NUMERALS

-   1 wall-   2 wall-   3 wallpaper-   4 bordure-   5 design-   10 wall-   11 wall-   12 tile-   14 tile sticker-   15 theme

1. Wall covering in the form of a bordure (4) or a tile sticker (14)that can be stuck onto a wall (1, 2) or tile surface, comprising atleast one supporting body with a visible front side and a back side,characterized in that at least a portion of the visible front sidecomprises a printed lenticular foil and/or a lenticular foil with imagesstuck behind it.
 2. Wall covering according to claim 1, characterized inthat the complete front side consists of a lenticular foil.
 3. Wallcovering according to claim 1, characterized in that several lenticularfoils with different graphics elements are disposed distributed over thelength of the bordure (4).
 4. Wall covering according to claim 1,characterized in that at least one tile (12) is covered with alenticular foil.
 5. Wall covering according to claim 1, characterized inthat several lenticular foils with different graphics elements arearranged spaced apart or consecutively over the length of the bordure(4).
 6. Wall covering according to claim 1, characterized in that thelenticular foil is connected with the supporting material by a materialbond and/or with a form-fit.
 7. Wall covering according to claim 1,characterized in that the lenticular foil and the supporting body aredirectly glued, sewn or welded to each other.
 8. Wall covering accordingto claim 1, characterized in that the lenticular foil and the supportingbody are bordered by an edge strip.
 9. Wall covering according to claim1, characterized in that the lenticular foil with images stuck behind itis laminated at its back with a paper fibre and/or fabric-likesupporting layer which serves as supporting body.
 10. Wall coveringaccording to claim 1, characterized in that the edges of the lenticularfoil with images stuck behind it are bordered.
 11. Wall coveringaccording to claim 1, characterized in that the lenticular foil isglued, ironed, sewn or welded onto the front side.
 12. Wall coveringaccording to claim 1, characterized in that the supporting body isprovided, on its back side, with a pressure-sensitive adhesive.
 13. Wallcovering according to claim 1, characterized in that thepressure-sensitive adhesive is provided with a peelable laminationsheet.
 14. Wall covering according to claim 1, characterized in that thesupporting body with the pressure-sensitive adhesive may be peeled off awall surface without leaving any residue and be reused several times.